MVP, Yay! ⛱

On May 21st, 2019, we pitched Stormkit at WebZueri, a local meetup organised in Zurich, Switzerland. This was the first time we showed Stormkit publicly. We got very valuable feedback and two potential users. That was the first time we were in front of a public :) With this, we officially launched our MVP. All we have to do is now find new users :)

Now that I look back, it's been almost 9 months that I was working on this actively as a side project. I also have a family, and a full time job. As realising your dreams is a long-breathed process, it's very important to keep the balance, otherwise burning out will be unavoidable.

Having limited resources mean that you have to allocate your time as efficient as possible. As a developer, we tend to have that instinct which forces us to build unnecessary features and over-complicate the software. We like doing this. I also like it :) But, this time, I've tried to avoid it. I believe we were very good at prioritising the tasks and working on them efficiently. We always postponed tomorrow's problems to tomorrow and focused only on today's problems. Obviously, when doing this, you have to keep in mind scalability as you don't want to come back and change the behaviour of a software frequently.

Stormkit is a very complex tool behind the scenes. We make our lives more complex by trying to ease other developers lives, by shifting the complexity from their side to our side. Therefore, planning, allocation of resources and being determined were the key factors for me to come up with the MVP.